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Show Details: May 2017
2017-05-06
- First: Roxanne Roberts 16 (2 / 7)
- Second: Paula Poundstone 11 (3 / 4)
- Third: Luke Burbank 9 (1 / 4)
Even though Guy Ritchie knew that correct answer for the first Not My Job question was "C", but opted to answer with "B" as he liked it better. At the end of the Not My Job segment, Bill Kurtis said that Guy "got them all right". Although that is correct due to guy knowing all the correct questions, but did not opt to choose the right one for the first one.
2017-05-13
- First: Mo Rocca 14 (2 / 6)
- Second: Negin Farsad 13 (3 / 5)
- Third: Alonzo Bodden 10 (2 / 4)
After Hannah Kearney gave her first guess to the second Not My Job question, the audience started shouting out answers. Hannah asked if she could poll the audience, in which they shouted "C". Hannah changed her answer to "C", which was the correct answer. After Peter listed the three possible answers for the third question, the audience started shouting out "C" again, which Hannah chose and it was the correct answer as well.
During the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment, Alonzo Bodden was trying to come up with the answer "Kim Jong Un" and, according to Peter, was close enough with "Kim Jong Il". Alonzo also tried to remember Jared Kushner's last name and knew it was a "Jared". Peter said that was enough and accepted the partial answer.
2017-05-20
- First: Faith Salie 19 (3 / 8)
- Second: Janelle James 12 (2 / 5)
- Third: Tom Bodett 10 (2 / 4)
The correct answer for all three Not My Job questions were "C".
After Faith Salie answered all eight of her Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank questions correct, Bill Kurtis mentioned that 19 points is the highest score that he has seen since becoming judge and scorekeeper. Looking at the data, Bill is correct and the only other times in which someone scored 19 points, three times in fact, when Bill as scorekeeper was Roxanne Roberts.
2017-05-27
- First: Adam Felber 14 (2 / 6)
- Second: Alonzo Bodden 11 (3 / 4)
- Third: Amy Dickinson 10 (2 / 4)
All three panelists have first names that start with the letter "A". Last time that happened was on 2016-04-02 and also had the same three panelists.
After Alonzo Bodden finished answering the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round questions, Bill Kurtis said that he answered 4 correct for 8 more points, and a total of 10 points. Alonzo started with 3 points and 8 more would total 11 points. Recording the corrected score with this footnote.